Elizabeth Banks loses her eyebrows for The Hunger Games
It seems playing Effie Trinkett in The Hunger Games movie comes at a price. Elizabeth Banks has let on before that her hair will definitely be pink for her role as Effie and now it seems she’s pretty much lost her eyebrows as well. Elizabeth spoke to New York Magazine about her latest film, Our Idiot Brother, when she explains why she “has no eyebrows right now”
Banks, 37, is petite and pretty, but she does, in fact, look a little freakish. Her brows have been bleached to invisibility so she can wear the mask of makeup required for what is sure to be the most watched and scrutinized role of her career—as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s hugely popular dystopian trilogy. Trinket is the pink-haired “mentor” to teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she’s forced to fight other kids to the death on TV. Banks, who got the role after hounding director Gary Ross, with whom she’d worked on Secretariat, had long been a fan of the books. “I definitely see parallels” to today’s world, she says. “The Hunger Games is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society.”
It’s not America—yet—but she does worry. “We have a problem where the top 1 percent controls everything and then 99 percent of Americans don’t have a say in their daily life. That stuff really affects me because I grew up in a working-class family—I worked three jobs in college—and my parents and sisters all lost jobs recently.”
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O I feel sorry for her!!!!
i would like 2 see a picture of her… just out of curiosity.
I can’t wait till i see what she’s going to look lie. Can’t wait